Cloud Architect
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hackajob is collaborating with AXA to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
We have a new opportunity for a Cloud Architect to join us.
Reporting into the Head of Infrastructure Architecture Guild, you'll provide strategic technical leadership and architectural direction to the Cloud Platform Engineering teams and liaise with different stakeholders and communities to ensure alignment to strategic objectives. You'll lead and develop a high performing, technical platform capability and be responsible for enabling and developing platform services. You'll act as the highest technical design escalation point in the Azure Cloud Domain.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.
What You'll Be Doing
Responsibility for strategic direction and development of Cloud services in AXA UK
Responsibility for UK Cloud Target, Current and Transition architectures and key contributor to development of multi-year roadmap in collaboration with the senior business and IT stakeholders
Partnering with stakeholders in AXA Group to develop and maintain key metrics on Group Cloud products and services adoption
Responsibility for the architecture, enablement standards and technical direction of the Azure Platform Engineering function
Co-developing the product technical roadmaps; translating platform features into technology solutions using modern, industry best practices
Working across multi-disciplinary teams of Azure Platform Engineers, Enterprise Architects and DevSecOps Engineers to collaborate on and produce high-quality, innovative, and robust cloud solutions for public release, overseeing complicated technical migrations and deployments (enable, service and operational transition)
Partnering with stakeholders and customers to develop and inform the underlying platform capabilities that will speed up product engineering, such as automation, reuse, and consistency across software product lines
Acting as the highest technical escalation point in the domain and structuring key design decisions to unblock issues
Encouraging innovation and mitigation of risks at the earliest responsible moment, accepting and learning from low-cost failure
Building and maintaining a culture of responsible, engaged, self-organised and self-managed teams
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Requirements
Substantial hands-on expertise working on large-scale (distributed systems) technical projects, including creating and deploying large-scale online and mobile applications in an agile platform engineering environment
Experience working with, designing and implementing Cloud Platforms in enterprise environments
Thorough understanding of Platform Engineering principles and how to apply them to provide quick, test-driven product engineering services to get products to customers faster
Proven experience with Azure security models and enterprise integration patterns
Awareness of market trends in Insurance and the IT industry, especially in Platform Engineering and Cloud
Ability to manage third-party relationships
Experience in building investment cases and planning multi-year roadmap
Knowledge of various Agile frameworks and secure software development approaches and techniques (e.g. CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE and Automation-first approaches)
Understanding of Financial Services markets and products desirable
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Benefits & conditions
Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
Annual company & performance-based bonus
Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
Life Assurance (up to 10× annual salary)
28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
Wellbeing services & resources
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